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i find this sort of fetishism disturbing. i much rather like Kurt vonnegut's stance on this: authors are not obliged to finish what they began. he also claimed
by stewbrew 16y ago
i find this sort of fetishism disturbing. i much rather like Kurt vonnegut's stance on this: authors are not obliged to finish what they began. he also claimed having trashed quite a few novels.
- cstross 16y agoAu contraire: knowing why authors abandon novels is of some considerable interest to those of us who earn our living by writing them. Speaking only for myself, about 90% of all novels involve a phase where my relationship with it is "this is shit, it sucks, why can't I be writing something else?" ... The only ones that don't go through this phase are written rapidly, in a driven death-march, so that I don't have time to sit back and stare at it. And on the basis of conversations with other writers I've concluded that this is pretty much normal.